Cigar Blend is Nancy Fraley’s bourbon built to stand up to a cigar — Joseph Magnus Bourbon married with eleven- and eighteen-year whiskeys and finished in Armagnac casks, bottled by numbered batch around 100 proof. Joseph A. Magnus was a Cincinnati distiller whose 1892 bourbon vanished with Prohibition; his great-grandson relaunched the brand in 2015 with Fraley, the most respected independent blender in American whiskey, and Cigar Blend became its cult bottle — each batch a few barrels, each different, each numbered. Batch 237 is the house’s triple-finished bourbon blended with eleven- and eighteen-year high-rye Indiana and Kentucky stock, finished in Armagnac casks, and bottled at cask proof; check your bottle for the exact proof. The house notes: tobacco, spice, leather, vanilla, blanched almond, and toffee on the nose, the Armagnac lending fig, prune, and dried apricot. Paste: tobacco leaf, cardamom, and fig jam with structured tannins. Cade Sterling’s three-batch comparison and Amongst the Whiskey both note the batch-to-batch variation as the point. Honest note: Cigar Blend batches trade among collectors, sell out at the distillery, and are the reason Magnus has a following — eighteen-year whiskey in Armagnac wood at cask strength is a rare thing, and the price says so. Neat, with a cigar, slowly. Cigar Blend, batch 237.
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